Man Utd spies keeping tabs on Catania youngster Morimoto
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson chasing Catania striker Takayuki Morimoto.
The People says Fergie's spies have been to Italy to watch the 21-year-old striker play for Catania and have made contact about a potential deal in the new year or at the end of the season.
Morimoto would be a massive commercial asset in United's bid to dominate the Asian market.
He has recovered from a knee problem that stopped his progress a couple of years ago.
Ferguson is expected to make a personal check shortly, but sources close to Catania claim an inquiry has already come in and they would be open to a sale - but preferably in the summer once their survival battle in Italy is over.
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| Napoli | Cesena | - | 23:00 |
| Cagliari | Roma | - | 23:00 |
| Bologna | Fiorentina | - | 23:00 |
| Novara | Chievo | - | 23:00 |
| Lazio | Milan | - | 23:00 |
| Internazionale | Palermo | - | 23:00 |
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| Novara | Chievo | - | 00:00 |
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Comments (2)
Other recomendations from Asia and other untapped regions.... for premier leage action not chelsea necesserily
Ben Kantarovski (newcastle Jets Australia)
Yashishuto Endo (Gamba Osaka Japan)
Sebastian Quintana (HE IS BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!) (Qatar)
Jovetic (Fiorentina)
Victor Moses (crystal palace)
Roy Krishna (Fiji) (good young Raw tallent, not technically good, but very quick with a good shot and very powerful)
Wolze (somewhere is Germany i beleive) Good player though
Emmanual (Nigeria under 17s)
Neuer (Shalker 04)
Nicky Carle (Crystal palace)
..... Look for some of these players highlight reels
Seriously check out Quintana, endo, Moses and Carle
Morimoto is just the kind of player Chelsea need to become self sufficient, young so he can be with the club for a long time and Japanese, giving the club a major leg up in the competitive Japanese market for football merchandise, one only need look at the experiences of Nakamura and Park for Celtic and Man U to demonstrate the effect of signing an Asian star.
Our other january signings should go...
1. Aguero or Pato and bring Franco di Santo and Michael Mancienne back
2. Villa, if we can get silva and/or mata as well, if not then i think we should get Quaresma back
3. Alan Dzagoev and Milos Krasic (did u see him against Man U!)
Alex Tiexeira (before Man U can nab him)
Giampaolo Pazzini
Takayuki Morimoto
4. Daniele de Rossi
Franck Ribery
Lucas Piazon (youth from Brazil) and Romelu Lakuku (youth from Anderlecht)
or Jesus Gamez from Malaga
or Jonathan De Guzman
5. Marek Hamsik
and/or Joao Moutinho
and/or Ramires
and/or Raul Meireles
and/or Antonio Candreva
6. An ACN backup,
Robert Acquafresca
Robinho
Hulk
Marouane Chamakh
Ezequiel Lavezzi
7. Patrick Vieira
8. Javi Garcia
9. YOUTH!!!! Adam Johnson, David Luiz, Sebastian Corchia, Matej Delac, Lorenzo Paramatti, Seydou Doumbia, Gai Assulin, Jonjo Shelvey, Cesar Azpilicueta, Nacho Monreal
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